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PATENTED JUNE 18,1907. L. A. HOERR. DOOR HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 21, 1906.

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DOOR-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented June 18, 1907..

Application filed September 21,1906- Serial No. 335,540.

1'0 all], whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS A. HOERR, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, haveinvented a certain new and useful Door- Hanger, of which the followingis such a full, clear, and exact description as will enable any oneskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification.

My invention relates to door hangers an i more particularly to the meansfor suspending the sliding door of such car.

Heretofore railway cars have been made in which the door was normallysupported by asliding bearing and adapted to be shifted from suchsliding bearing to rolling bearing through levers which raised the cardoor.

The object of my invention is to provide a sliding bearing normallysupporting the door, and a rolling bearing and to provide meanscontrolled by the lateral movement of the door for shifting the doorfrom the sliding bearing to the rolling bearing.

In accompanying drawings which illustrate one form of door hanger madein accordance with my invention, together with part of a railway car towhich the same is applied, Figure 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2 is avertical section on a slightly enlarged scale; Fig. 3 is anenlarged sideelevation, partly in section, of one of the hangers, and Fig. 4 is aside elevation of one of the hangers the tilting member being shown in adifferent position.

Like marks of reference refer to similar parts in the severalviews ofthe drawings.

10 represents the car body which is provided with the usual roof 11 andfacia board 12.

13 is the door which is provided with the usual handle 14 for moving itlaterally.

At the left side of the door the car body 10 has secured to it the usualdoor stop 15. Arranged between the facia board 12 and the top of thedoor 13 is an inverted channel bar 16 which serves for a track for thehangers, as will be hereinafter described, and also acts as a shieldfor'the top of the door to prevent the entrance of rain or snow. Thechannel bar 16 is secured to the side-of the car by means of bolts 17.The hangers which are preferably two in number, each consists of a plate18, provided with bolt holes 19, and a hood 20. Loosely carried by eachof the hangers Figs. 1 and 2.

18 is a tiltinggmember 21 providedg withia sliding bearing 22 and a pairofg wheels 23 forming rolling bearings. Extending upwardly from each ofthe tilting membersgl is a triangular projection 24 which is engaged bythe hood 20. Each of the hoods 20 is provided. with a rounded bearingsurface 25 which normally rests on the concave upper face of thetriangular projection 24. At each side of this bearing surface 25 areconcave recesses 26 adapted to engage with the rounded corners 27 of thetriangular projection 24 when the door is moved laterally so as to tiltthemember 21 into the position shown in Fig. 4 and thus shift the cardoor from the sliding bearing 22 to one of the rolling bearings 23. Atthe same time the entire door will be slightly raised as will be evidentfrom a comparison of Fig. 3 and Fig. 4. Secured to the body of the car10 adjacent to the lower edge of the door 13 are a pair of brackets 30.These-brackets 30'are adapted to form sliding bearings for door 13 whensaid door is in its closed position, as shown in When in this position,Said brackets 30 co-operate with corner pieces 31 secured to the door13. These corner pieces 31 project Slightly below the lower edge of thedoor 13 as shown in Fig.- 1 so that when the door 13 is moved out of itsnormal position its lower edge does not engage with the brackets 30. I

The operation of the door will be evident from the above description.When the door 13 is in its closed position, as shown in Fig. 1, itsentire weight will rest upon its brackets 30, the parts being soproportioned and positioned that in this position the hoods 20 areslightly raised so as to be out of contact with the tilting members 24of the hangers. When, however, the door is moved laterally, either bymeans of handle 14 or in any other way, the members 21 will be tiltedinto the position shown in Fig. 4, thus raising the door 13 off thebrackets 30 and shifting it on to the wheels 23 so that it will have arolling bearing. As soon, however, as the door is allowed to come torest out of its closed position it will drop and shift from the rollingbearings 23 to the sliding bearings 22. If now the door be again movedin either direction the members 21 will againv be tilted so as to shiftthe door from the sliding bearings 22 to the rolling bearings 23. Itwill thus be evident that the door does not rest upon the rollingbearings 23 at any time while it is at rest, and when in its closedposition the Weight is entirely transferred from the hangers 18 to thebrackets 80. The channel bar 16 protects the door 13 from the entranceof rain and snow in addition to forming a track for the hangers 18.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letter Patent of the United States, is

1. The combination with a car body, of a door, a sliding support forsaiddoor, a rolling support for said door, and means controlled by thelateral movement of said door for shifting said door from one of saidsupports to the other.

2. The combination with a car body, of a door, a sliding support forsaid door, a hanger provided with a rolling support for said door, andmeans controlled by the lateral movement of said door for shifting saiddoor from one of said supports to the other.

3. The combination with a car body, of a door, and means controlled bythe lateral movement of the door for moving said door vertically.

4. The combination of the car body, of a door, a hanger for said door,and means carried by said hanger and controlled by the lateral movementof the door for moving the door vertically.

5. The combination with a car body, of a door, a hanger secured to saiddoor, a tilting member carried by said hanger and provided with asliding'support, and a rolling support mounted thereon.

6. The combination with a car body, of a door, a hanger secured to saiddoor and having a hood, a member provided with a sliding bearing andhaving an upward projection adapted to engage said hood, and a rollingbearing carried by said member.

7. The combination with a car body, of a door, a hanger secured to saiddoor and having a hood, a member provided with a sliding bearing andhaving an upward triangular projection adapted to engage said hood, anda rolling bearing carried by said member.

8. The combination with a car body, of a door, a hanger secured to saiddoor and having a hood, an inverted channel bar secured to said car bodyforming a shield for said door, a tilting member provided with a slidingsupport co-operating with said channel bar, and a rolling supportcarried by said inember and co-operating' with said channel In testimonywhereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal in the presenceof the two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS A. HOERR. [L. s.]

